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About Dan Collins
His Experience & Qualifications
Dan is an expert in re-positioning, restoring, and repurposing distressed property having over 35+ years of experience as a licensed real estate broker, general contractor, and land developer with an extensive background in land use entitlements, zoning, and building code compliance matters. His curriculum vitae details extensive experience in repurposing real properties by land use, development, re-construction improvements, and brokerage experience in sourcing buyers to reposition underperforming and nuisance properties. He leverages his background and professional designations to focus on Health & Safety receiverships, where he transforms hazardous, blighted properties into valuable assets contributing significantly to the rejuvenation of many communities throughout the Bay Area and Sacramento region.
His unique expertise proves invaluable in Health & Safety receiverships, saving significant time and expense to realize the highest potential value for the properties at issue and allowing municipalities to recover their costs in the matter.
In addition to his professional achievements, Dan has been actively involved in several civic committees and advisory groups, where he has leveraged his knowledge to influence urban planning and development policies. His work with the City of Oakland Citizens Committee for Live Work Projects and the City of Bend, Oregon Citizen’s 20-Year Master Plan Committee and Sewer Infrastructure Advisory Group highlights his commitment to sustainable and strategic urban development. Dan’s dedication to his field is further evidenced by his involvement in litigation advisory services, where he has provided critical insights to assist in the optimal positioning of properties.
Overall, Dan Collin’s career is a testament to his notable skills and unwavering dedication to the field of real estate, making him an exceptional receiver, particularly in Health & Safety matters.
About Dan Collins
Receivership Practices and Coordinated Receiver Services
With a deep understanding of the real estate market, the code violations, permitting and construction process, Dan clearly understands the property’s issues and vet bids from contractors for the work without having to rely on others as well as developing creative, outside-the-box solutions for complex cases. Without the need to rely on others, he can and does deploy a lean and cost-efficient approach to administering receiverships. He does not employ a large staff who are billed at rates far above actual costs and often, unavoidably, duplicate efforts resulting in additional billing costs. Whenever it is reasonable to do so, he employs qualified third-party vendors, and contractors at cost without unnecessary markups or profit margins. To the extent practicable, he prefers to engage local vendors, contractors, and other services locally as he finds this not only results in more competitive pricing by those with knowledge of the community but can also give the community a personal investment in “fixing” the problem.
Dan’s standard of practice keeps the cost of administering the receivership estate to a minimum compared to “larger shop” receivership service providers. It also improves the likelihood of municipalities recovering their enforcement costs because it preserves the estate’s equity in the property as much as possible. Although Dan is not a lawyer he coordinates his services with the legal services of Marianne M. Dickson of M Dickson Law, P.C. to navigate the legal complexities as an agent of the court.
Marianne has vast knowledge of and experience with receiverships, including Health & Safety Receiverships, and real property law. Her experience in distressed real estate, including bankruptcies, loan enforcement actions, and loan originations, make her particularly versatile in navigating the complexities of Health & Safety Receiverships and property rehabilitation. Dan and Marianne have worked closely together since August 2020, consistently delivering successful outcomes in numerous distressed property cases. She is as committed to providing cost-efficient services as Dan to get the best results possible in any case. Together, Dan and Marianne work well together to support the other and deliver efficient results.
There are efficiencies with well-coordinated services, as Dan and Marianne can demonstrate. Their symbiotic relationship allows them to seamlessly coordinate their efforts to focus on the efficient disposition of their cases and distress properties. With Dan’s expertise in transforming distressed real estate and Marianne’s in-depth legal knowledge of distressed real estate, coupled with their joint commitment to delivering cost efficient services, they offer a complete and competitive receivership service package capable of handling just about any case.
About Marianne Dickson and
M Dickson Law, P.C.
Marianne is an accomplished attorney who is skillfully adept at crafting solutions in difficult cases involving distressed assets. Even before attending law school, she began her career negotiating and managing contracts for power plants primarily in North America at Toshiba International, learning the art of negotiation, teamwork, balancing project budgets, and working within the confines of the contract terms previously negotiated over an extended period of time. Before graduating law school, she externed for the Hon. Arthur S. Weissbrodt (Ret.) in the Northern District of California Bankruptcy Court followed by an internship with the IRS.
In 2007, she started her legal practice at a well-known boutique bankruptcy firm in San Francisco, representing creditor committees, chapter 7 and 11 trustees, assignees for the benefit of creditors, and corporate debtors, where she developed plans for corporate restructuring and orderly liquidation. In 2011, she transitioned to representing creditors, mostly financial institutions, in enforcing secured debt loans and judgments in and outside of bankruptcy, which included utilizing receivers and eventually began representing receivers. Soon after, she expanded her practice to represent financial lenders and real estate holdings in structuring secured loan transactions for commercial properties, including shopping centers, office buildings, hotels, casinos, car dealerships, school bonds, real estate development, etc.
Marianne has been equally active in the distressed asset community. For over 8 years she was an active member of the board for the Turnaround Management Association – Northern California which also overlapped with her nearly 3-year tenure on the board for the Bay Area Chapter of the California Receiver’s Forum.
In 2020, Marianne became in-house counsel for a court-appointed receiver who focused on Health and Safety receiverships in California, where she utilized her knowledge of real property law, distressed assets, and secured debt to help reposition public nuisance properties into performing assets for the community. After seeing the benefits that a Health & Safety receivership can provide to a community but realizing the extreme costs, she started her own practice and partnered with Dan Collins with the goal of delivering “big” receivership services and results at a more cost-efficient price.